Posted on 12/31/2004 4:28:46 PM PST by filly
The number of King County ballots counted in the final tally was 899,199 — 3,539 more than the number of participating voters reported in the county's list.
(Excerpt) Read more at powerlineblog.com ...
My bad.
On Thursday, the day after King County released a list of nearly 900,000 voters who cast ballots Nov. 2, Republicans demanded to know why the list appeared to have about 3,500 fewer names than the number of tallied votes.Election officials in the state's largest county — a Democratic stronghold — replied that the list was preliminary, noting that records of voters who cast certain write-in ballots and people who wanted their addresses kept confidential still had to be reconciled with election data.
Gregoire congratulated Rossi for running a strong campaign, and said it was up to him to decide when and where to concede. But she ruled out a brand new election.
"Do-overs" only occur in golf, and only during practice, she said. "This is not golf and this is not practice."
A legal challenge would have to be filed by Jan. 22, 10 days after Gregoire's scheduled inauguration.
This could be a lot of fun to watch----get the year off to a good start.
Go, ROSSI, GO!
Lets hope a lot of Dems get to do the perp walk for elex fraud.
These lying cheaters have to be exposed, so this kind of stuff will stop happening! I hope someone gets this to Drudge!
98 Washington State Ballots found in Alaska (THIS IS GETTING TOTALLY ABSURD) The Seattle Times ^
Posted on 12/24/2004 9:28:36 AM PST by Nascardude
Alaska's elections director said yesterday she has 98 uncounted ballots from Washington's Nov. 2 election and would like to send them back here.
Dino Rossi's campaign wants to see them.
Washington officials say the ballots were cast as provisional ballots by people who said they were Alaska residents, and then the votes were sent north. Provisional ballots are given to voters on Election Day when they go to polling places other than their own, or their names don't appear in lists of registered voters.
Washington, with one of the country's most liberal provisional-ballot laws, sends ballots to the voter's home state in hopes they can be counted in the presidential election, said Washington's director of elections, Nick Handy.
"I actually had a number of calls from election directors from around the country that said, 'Why am I getting provisional ballots from Washington?' " Handy said.
In Juneau, Alaska Director of Elections Laura Glaiser said a quick look at the 98 ballots found one showing an Alaska mailing address but a place of residence in Tacoma.
Handy and Glaiser said that could qualify as a Washington vote if the voter were properly registered here.
Glaiser tried to give the ballots back so officials here could review them to make sure none were cast by valid Washington voters. But her attorneys were told by a state attorney here that Washington law called for the ballots to be sent out of state.
After hearing of the Alaska ballots yesterday, the Rossi campaign began a nationwide search for ballots held by other states, and believes there are Washington ballots in Idaho as well.
Handy said it's too late for the ballots to be counted
Let's hope so. This thing stinks, and as usual, is getting very little play from the lamestream media.
The cry of "we found more ballots" was heard nine times from King County. As I recall, the largest number was 10,000 "found ballots", the smallest 22.
I don't recall a specific call of 3,500 (though there may well have been).
Oops. Sorry about that. I only meant to post the link.
Tut, tut. A minor mater for state employees to straighten out (and you know who they are).
Maybe we should have the elections on Easter Sunday since the Democrats have turned voting into an Easter egg hunt.
That's to be expected.....on a good note Dad ordered 5 new P/U's for the ranch
Some lib was at the dealer when he was giving the check---lib called dad a eco-terrorist.
So he ordered 7 more pickups!
*EVIL GRIN*
I've been hearing a song in my head with a title disturbingly similar to your description all day ;'}
Handy and Glaiser said that could qualify as a Washington vote if the voter were properly registered here.
Hey, maybe I'm a Washington State voter and don't even know it! Why I could just sit down, write 'Proviznal Balut' in crayon, and send in my vote!
No, read closely. Not registered voters, participating voters.
That said, that's suspicious too, but they will find some nice, reasonable explaination for it I'm sure.
There is a movie, "Black Sheep", shot years ago, which eerily anticipates the current events in WA. It ends with Chris Farley character exposing over-voting fraud of a Democrat Gregoire-lookalike Governor
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